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ANA
/ˈæ.nə/
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What does ANA mean?
noun
- A collection of things associated with a person or place, especially a personal collection of anecdotes or conversations at table
- Anorexia.
adverb
- Of each; an equal quantity.
More meanings (15)
adverb
- In a direction analogous to up, but along the additional axis added by the fourth dimension.
noun
- Alternative form of anna (“a former subdivision of the rupee”).
- Initialism of anti-nuclear antibody.
- Initialism of animal nursing assistant.
- A member of the Ana people.
proper noun
- Abbreviation of Anaheim.
- Initialism of Afghan National Army.
- Initialism of All Nippon Airways.
- Initialism of American Nurses Association.
- A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
- A river in Oregon, United States.
- Alternative spelling of Anah, a city in Anbar, Iraq.
- An ethnicity within the Yoruba people, mostly living in Benin and Togo in West Africa.
- The language within the Niger-Congo family spoken by the Ana people.
- (historical) Initialism of Australian National Airways.
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IPA pronunciation
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Santa Ana, they said, was for breaking down the missions; or, as they termed it--"Santa Ana no quiere religion."
Clusters of separate houses occur as far south as Dona Ana.
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‘Tis one and the same nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things, might certainly conclude as to both the future ana the past.
Incidentally it is worth noting that Westermarck controverts Professor Vambéry's opinion that the Turko-Tartar words for "mother," ana, ene, originally meant "nurse" or "woman" (from the root an, en), holding that exactly the reverse is the fact, "the terms for mother being the primitive words."